How to start master container?

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The issue you are facing:
I have been running Nextcloud AIO without any issues for many months. Today, I went to update the master container but the backup can’t complete because storage is full. I am going to use another backup solution so I want to disable the built-in backup with borg.

I stopped the master container with the command:

sudo docker stop [container-id]

Now I want to start the master container again with backup disabled. The docs say you can do so by adding -e DISABLE_BACKUP_SECTION=true to the initial startup of the mastercontainer.

I tried running the following command to start the container with backup disabled:

sudo docker start [container-id] -e DISABLE_BACKUP_SECTION=true

However it shows the message unknown shorthand flag: 'e' in -e.

What is the command to restart the master container with backup disabled?

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Y

Steps to replicate it:

  1. Stop master container with sudo docker stop [container-id].
  2. Try to start master container with sudo docker start [container-id] -e DISABLE_BACKUP_SECTION=true.

There is no -e argument for docker start. This is a limitation in Docker which doesn’t support changing runtime options of existing containers.

So what are the steps for restarting Nextcloud with backup disabled?

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Basically you need to stop the mastercontainer, remove it and recreate it with changed settings.

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